Defense Boom Evident Across Homes Autos And Roads
The defense boom spreads from New Jersey to Pennsylvania with busy highways full of trucks and rising prices. New houses rise in towns like Allentown and Pittsburgh while furniture stores report strong sales. Price controls loom as Henderson warns the era of cheap goods may end and shortages could curb production.
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Paul Gesner
John Beckley
York
the Gazette Special News Service
New York City
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
Leon Henderson
Grains Hold Firm Tone on Chicago Board Prices Rise
Wheat gains driven by a firm board and crop damage fears from heat. Soybeans climb to session highs as lard and cotton rally support grain futures. Winnipeg prices jump on October delivery amid drought fears, while corn and oats show modest moves.
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Chicago
INS
Chicago Board of Trade
Winnipeg
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Winnipeg Market and Chicago Cash Provisions Summary
Winnipeg market data shows open high low and close figures for July September and December contracts, with miscellaneous bids and bids. Chicago cash provisions list grain prices by commodity and grade including No 1 hard wheat No 2 yellow corn oats barley soybeans lard and belly values.
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Winnipeg
Sateast
Chicago
API
Lamson Brothers and Company
H. R. Mowrey
Cedar Rapids
Merchants National Bank
Prices Rise and Fall in Eastern Iowa and Chicago Hog Market
Eastern Iowa stocks and bonds quoted as non binding indicators. Chicago livestock market shows hog receipts light with high week gains to 12.60, but butcher hogs and sows steady to mixed. cattle and veal prices rise, calves minimal, top yearlings at 12.50, vealers at 13.00, spring lambs steady near 11.75, mixed national receipts and classes noted.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Dept. Agricultures
Lowe
Northwestern Rangers
Linn County Real Estate Mortgages And Conveyances Weekly Totals
Conveyances and mortgages recorded in Linn County from July 11 to July 17 as reported by Linn County Abstract Company show 35 mortgages with an aggregate value of $74 300.00 surpassing the previous year’s figures. The week totaled 58 conveyances and a mortgages aggregate of $6 501.64.
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Linn County
Linn County Abstract Company
Mortcares
Iowa Lakes sewage request deferred by committee
DES MOINES AP A request by the Iowa Great Lakes sanitary sewer system for 6000 to help operate its 1,000,000 disposal plant was deferred by the legislative interim committee while more information is sought. The panel approved 116,000 of 124,000 from the conservation commission emergency works fund.
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Des Moines
Iowa Great Lakes Sanitary Sewer System
Legislative Interim Committee
Conservation Commission
Cedar Rapids Grain and Market Prices Digest
A Cedar Rapids market listing shows varied grains and produce with prices for wheat oats rye barley and soybeans. hay straw poultry and eggs quoted by weight and class. wholesale fruits vegetables and related commodities including lemons oranges grapefruits melons onions cabbages carrots tomatoes and potatoes. various hides and livestock prices also noted. The compendium reflects mixed commodity pricing and market items common to a regional trade page.
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Springs
Leshorn News
Idaho
California
Metals Markets New York Prices For Delivered Metals
In New York Sulphur and base metal prices are listed for delivered metals in cents per pound or dollars per flask. Copper electrolytic and export terms, tin, lead, zinc, aluminum, antimony and quicksilver prices with regional postings in New York and East St Louis are shown.
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New York
East St. Louis
East St Louis
Markets CHICAGO PRODUCE Arrivals and Prices
Chicago produce market reports strong demand and steady tone as potato arrivals reach 157 with total shipments 324 and heavy supplies. California long whites washed 2.20 to 2.30, Idaho 1.82 to 1.90, Nebraska Bliss Triumphs 1.40 to 1.50, Red Warbas 1.55, cobblers 0.90 to 1.15, unwashed 0.70 to 0.90, Oregon 1.50, Kansas cobblers unwashed 0.70.
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Chicago
California
Idaho
Bliss
Nebraska
Missouri
Bliss Triumphs
Oregon Bliss Triumphs
Kansas Cobblers
Bela Kun Reported Captive in Ukraine
Berlin radio said Bela Kun the former Hungarian Bolshevist leader captured by counter revolutionary Ukrainians. A NBC CBS broadcast claimed Kun was sent to Ukraine on a mission to restore order and that he used barbaric methods, with executions of Ukrainian counter-revolutionists before his plane crash forced a flight and capture. Fate unknown.
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New York
INS
Berlin
Bela Kun
Hungary
NBC
CBS
Kun
Ukraine
Doubtful Germany can mount invasion before winter
A reliable foreign source says German odds of invading Britain before winter are slim due to Russian war drain. He notes Germany moved troops east and would need at least six weeks to reassemble invasion forces, with losses and RAF damage crippling communications and bases.
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London
England
Germany
R.A.F
Soviet Deaf-Mumb Fighting Contingent Reported
A Rome radio broadcast picked up in New York claims the Soviet high command may form a deaf and dumb fighting unit. The announcer says it would ignore battle noise and prevent revealing secrets, a suggestion denounced as barbaric.
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New York
INS
Rome
NBC
CBS
Cavalry Battle Over Waterhole Prepares Nation For War Games
Seventeen thousand U S troops, First Cavalry Division and Texas National Guardsmen simulated a desert battle in southern New Mexico near Fort Bliss. The clash centered on a mud water reservoir at Flat Tank Charley as planes completed quick field repairs after landing gear damage.
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Rice Vahner
Desert
New Mexico
56Th
Texas National Guardsmen
Louisiana
Fort Bliss
Tex
Flat Tank Charley
Organ Mountains
Former Film Actress Claire Maynard Found Dead in Gas Apt
New York police labeled the death tentatively as self inflicted in a gas filled apartment. Miss Maynard a former Hollywood film player and model had attempted suicide before and left three notes including one to her father. Her mood had been affected by her mother’s death three years prior.
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New York
Claire Maynard
Hollywood
Miss Maynard
Princeton Club
Navy priority urged to speed shipbuilding program
Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Committee warned that while the nation views the navy as first defense line, other defense needs take priority. He said the navy shipbuilding plan cannot meet dates without an extra 585 million dollars and urged faster supply flow by changing priority ratings.
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Washington
Vinson
House Naval Committee
Navy
Gehrmann alleges nationwide farm loyalty pledge drive
Rep Bernard Gehrmann charged that the agriculture department will launch a countrywide drive within a week to win farm backing for the war. He said soil conservation and marketing quota agents will operate in 3,000 counties to urge farmers to sign a pledge that includes an oath of loyalty and a promise to produce what the government wants at the government set price.
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Washington
Bernard J. Gehrmann
Wis
Agriculture Department
Roofer’s Tar and Wine Lesson Goes Upside Down
New York police rescued Herman Dietrich who started a roof climb with tar and wine. After sliding from the gutter to the street twice, he was admonished in night court for disorderly conduct and released.
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New York
Herman Dietrich
Vacuum Oil Aims to Bring U S Tankers to Australia
Melbourne reports C. K. Gamble, head of Vacuum Oil Australia, flies to the Pacific to secure American oil tankers to transport gasoline to Australia.
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Melbourne
INS
C. K. Gamble
Vacuum Oil Company
Australia
Pacific
Stocks In Waiting Attitude Pending War Developments
The market closed mixed with a broad wait for war developments. Volume was light at 220000 shares, with certain industrials and oils posting small gains while others dipped. Notable highs included Western Union and Sperry, as well as Pathe Film and Warner Bros.
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Coteton
Ns York
INS
Western Union
Sperry Corp
Pathe Film
Warner Bros
Wilson Common
Goodrich
Standard N. J
Cedar Rapids Bank Clearings Rise for Eleventh Week
Cedar Rapids Clearing House reports bank clearings for the week ending July 19 at 1 453 878 55 dollars, beating the prior year’s 1 084 240 42 dollars. week ending July 12 totals 1 527 968 09 dollars. Deliveries to the British government rise about fivefold to 1 612 airplanes in the July–December 1940 period.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Clearing House
Boxing world rumors and comebacks stir boxing scene
The article surveys a flood of boxing news including former champions linked to recent deaths and comebacks, managers planning high profile bouts, and promoters upbeat about the sport's dramatic activity across New York, St Louis, Des Moines, and Cleveland with figures like Joe Louis, Pat Comiskey, and Tony Galento in play.
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CCAS
Tommy Ryan
Los Angeles
Peoria
Des Moines
Mike Jacobs
Gus Lesnevich
Jimmy Webb
New York
St.Louis
Webb
Jack Kearns
Tony Galento
Pat Comiskey
Jersey City
Harry Mendel
Galento
Tom Andrews
Milwaukee
California
Chicago
Detroit
Wild Bill Boyd
Jack Dempsey
Fisth
Baltimore
al Davis
Newark
N. J
Star Bout
Henry von Stumme
Chuck Crowell
Richie Lemos
Glen Lee
Nebraska
Fritzie Zivic
Lee Savold
Henry Armstrong
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